Mascall, E. L. Existence and Analogy. London: Libra Books, 1949.

Abstract: 

This book is an investigation of what we mean by "God" and of the problem of making any statements whatever about a Being who is beyond the direct apprehension of our senses. "It would be useless," writes the author in his Preface, "to try to conceal that the general outlook of this book is one which might be described as that of a modern Thomist...I can only plead that if, on the broad issue and a number of details, I have had the temerity to agree with the Angelic Doctor, it is not because of a nostalgia for the thirteenth century, or because Dominicans are picturesque, or even in order to scandalize some of my elders, but simply because, having given a good deal of thought to these questions, I have come to the conclusion that what St. Thomas said about them was on the whole correct." Nevertheless, Dr. Mascall includes some searching investigations into St. Thomas's methods of argument and proof, and brings the same critical intelligence to bear on some of his defenders and exponents as on contemporaries who have offered variations or alternatives to the philosophia perennis.